ya know... in june and july, i told my family about bitcoin and tried to get some loaned money to buy some FPGA's. 4 to 5 grand worth. didn't work, obviously. at this point i'm just happy i don't have my spreadsheets on hand anymore to show me how much money the coins i could have mined would be worth...

ya know... in june and july, i told my family about bitcoin and tried to get some loaned money to buy some FPGA's. 4 to 5 grand worth. didn't work, obviously. at this point i'm just happy i don't have my spreadsheets on hand anymore to show me how much money the coins i could have mined would be worth...

it's bad enough thinking about all the games i've bought on steam!

Could you have mined more than you could have bought, that is, around 500 BTC?

ya know... in june and july, i told my family about bitcoin and tried to get some loaned money to buy some FPGA's. 4 to 5 grand worth. didn't work, obviously. at this point i'm just happy i don't have my spreadsheets on hand anymore to show me how much money the coins i could have mined would be worth...

it's bad enough thinking about all the games i've bought on steam!

Could you have mined more than you could have bought, that is, around 500 BTC?

not sure honestly. and too tired to do the required math. i was making a couple coins a month with my single vid card rig, and that's 300 mhash. so i'd easily have made ten times that. so with 4 mmq's at 800 ghash each for 3200 total i'd be making closer to 20 coins a month 5 months... obviously more like nine or ten since reward halve. assuming my basic guess is roughly accurate... i'd have made about a 5th. hmm. interesting.

of course, mining is a long term thing. after all, they'd STILL be mining. and, unless i shut them off, would likely happily keep ticking away for years. obviously ASIC's enter in to the equation in a big way, though not nearly as soon as was thought...

ya know... in june and july, i told my family about bitcoin and tried to get some loaned money to buy some FPGA's. 4 to 5 grand worth. didn't work, obviously. at this point i'm just happy i don't have my spreadsheets on hand anymore to show me how much money the coins i could have mined would be worth...

it's bad enough thinking about all the games i've bought on steam!

Come on, Valve has released Steam for Linux, it's not entirely impossible that they start supporting Bitcoin someday, and drive the price to the moon.

ya know... in june and july, i told my family about bitcoin and tried to get some loaned money to buy some FPGA's. 4 to 5 grand worth. didn't work, obviously. at this point i'm just happy i don't have my spreadsheets on hand anymore to show me how much money the coins i could have mined would be worth...

it's bad enough thinking about all the games i've bought on steam!

Come on, Valve has released Steam for Linux, it's not entirely impossible that they start supporting Bitcoin someday, and drive the price to the moon.

i actually meant games bought with bitcoin via steamgames here on the forum, and steamcoin before he shutdown. but yes, true! i can see it happening.

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h this help a toggle auto_update on/off <ret> show public order book, recent trades and your order book r S.reload - S.reload public order book and trades b <amount> <price> enter order to buy <amount> btc at <price> s <amount> <price> enter order to sell <amount> btc at <price> o view your order book c <index> <index> ... cancel order at <index> from orderbook (list of <index>s possible) ws toggle websockets updates q quit